Academic Commons Search Resultshttp://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog.rss?f%5Bdepartment_facet%5D%5B%5D=Starr+East+Asian+Library&q=&rows=500&sort=record_creation_date+desc
Academic Commons Search Resultsen-usShinto and Its Impacts on the Japanese View of Nature and Culturehttp://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:183631
Tanaka, Tsunekiyo; Iwahashi, Katsujihttp://dx.doi.org/10.7916/D82F7M8TFri, 27 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000Tanaka reviews Shinto beliefs and how they affect the view of living things and natural phenomena.Asian studies, Religion, Philosophy of religionStarr East Asian LibraryPresentationsChinese Calligraphy Exhibition and Symposiumhttp://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:183585
Mansheng, Wang; Xiaohua, Zhenghttp://dx.doi.org/10.7916/D8CZ360QThu, 26 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000This video features two presentations from the Chinese Calligraphy Exhibition and Symposium delivered at Columbia on October 18, 2014. In his presentation, Both Tool and Art: Chinese Calligraphy, Wang Mansheng presents some of his calligraphic art and describes what he has learned over decades of study and practice of Chinese calligraphy. In the second presentation, Aesthetics of Chinese Calligraphy, Zheng Xiaohua compares the histories of Chinese and Western art to reveal the aesthetic principles that influence calligraphy artists.Asian studies, Fine arts, Art historyStarr East Asian LibraryPresentationsContextually Speaking: Tibetan Literary Discourse And Social Change In The People's Republic Of China (1980-2000)http://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:175732
Hartley, Lauran R.http://dx.doi.org/10.7916/D84B2ZGBFri, 18 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000This dissertation examines literary debates initiated by Tibetan writers and critics in the 1980s and 1990s within the context of a rapidly modernizing society. My broader project is to illustrate how intellectuals position themselves in the field of literary production regarding questions of innovation, the function of literature, periodization, linguistic idiom, and the relevance of Indic kāvya theory, which dominated Tibetan belles-lettres for nearly seven hundred years. What discursive strategies do critics use to stake their literary claims? From what conceptual structures do they draw? How do they effect or resist, and ultimately shape literary change? This dissertation presents a cultural history centered on the concept of discursive formations, while also drawing on theoretical insights in sociology and literary criticism. After demonstrating how translation, publishing and educational activities of monastically trained scholars since the 1940s lay groundwork for the advent of a "New Tibetan Literature," I examine the subsequent development of modem Tibetan literary criticism, focusing on topics of sustained debate. While the bulk of my findings are based on a broad survey of Tibetan-medium literary criticism in the PRC, my selection of significant texts for close reading was informed by seventeen months of fieldwork in Qinghai and Gansu Provinces, and the Tibet Autonomous Region. My research illustrates how Tibetan literary and other journals provide a proxy public forum for intellectuals to negotiate Tibetan literature and culture. Key debates in the 1980s, during which kāvya principles continued to prevail, regarded the criteria for defining Tibetan literature, periodization and the emergence of free verse. By the mid- 1990s, however, free verse was commonplace and western literary theory more available A growing number of critics altogether rejected the kāvya model, suggesting instead that Tibet's literary roots lay in pre-Buddhist writings. An alternate response lay in the nascent formation of a modernist literary movement.Asian literaturelh2112Starr East Asian Library, Libraries and Information ServicesDissertationsChinese Republican Era Special Collections at Columbiahttp://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:168707
Cheng, Jimhttp://dx.doi.org/10.7916/D8KW5D04Tue, 14 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000An introduction of the special collections related to the Chinese Republican Era at Columbia University Libraries.Library science, Asian studiesjc3685Starr East Asian Library, Libraries and Information ServicesPresentationsArchival Materials Related to the Soong Family at Columbia Universityhttp://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:168750
Cheng, Jimhttp://dx.doi.org/10.7916/D8QN64P0Tue, 14 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000An introduction to the archival materials and digital projects that related to the Soong family at Columbia University.Library science, Asian studiesjc3685Starr East Asian Library, Libraries and Information ServicesPresentationsInnovative Discovery of Unique Collections: The Case of the Makino Mamoru Collection at Columbia Universityhttp://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:168731
Cheng, Jim; Katzoff, Beth S.http://dx.doi.org/10.7916/D8VD6WDBTue, 14 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000To promote scholarly research on the unique collections at Columbia University’s C.V. Starr East Asian Library, we worked closely with faculty members to initiate several symposia in 2011-2012. These symposia enabled us to promote our unique collections while building a global community of scholars who would benefit from the research on these special materials. The library employs innovative discovery methods for outreach that include hosting symposia, digitizing the remarks and presentations at these events, utilizing Columbia’s YouTube channel, and creating related websites and blogs. In this panel, Director Jim Cheng gave an overview of the vision and plan of our approach at the Starr Library. Beth Katzoff, Archivist and Public Services Librarian, discussed the case of the Makino Mamoru Collection on the History of East Asian Film (Makino Collection)*, its symposium in 2011, and the various tools she uses to promote this unique collection. These include the creation of the online finding aid (in process), the symposium webpage with links to the related digital lectures, the Makino Collection blog, and plans for future digital projects. Our next steps include facing the challenges of meeting various user needs and addressing copyright clearance issues. The focus of this talk is not to discuss digitizing items in the Makino Collection, but rather how to process and provide the means of discovery for the library’s archival materials. The Makino Symposium and its digitized presentations are the first in a series that will form a digital library of research on and online access to the unique archival materials at Starr Library. *The Makino Collection archive (over 900 linear feet) was purchased by Columbia University in 2006, processing began in September 2008, and continues today. The collection focuses on print materials mostly related to Japanese film that were collected over the course of fifty years by former documentary filmmaker and film researcher, Makino Mamoru.Library science, Asian studiesjc3685, bsk9Starr East Asian Library, Libraries and Information ServicesPresentationsRe-examining the Role of University Libraries in the Service of Tibetan Studieshttp://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:166475
Hartley, Lauran R.http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:21992Tue, 15 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0000The founding and growth of Tibetan Studies in North America would provide an apt case to study the historical link between university library collections and academic programs. The receipt of Tibetan language materials through the PL480-authorized acquisitions program coordinated by the Library of Congress closely correlates with those schools where sizable amounts of Tibetan research and instruction eventually took hold, and in most instances pre-dated the first hiring of Tibetan Studies faculty. While this direct correspondence has weakened, many of the stronger programs in North America remain at schools with PL480 legacy collections. Exciting strides in the provision of Tibetan Studies resources and metadata in recent years, however, have been most dramatically led by groups not necessarily centered at university libraries -- with the innovative exception of the Tibetan and Himalayan Library, brain-child of David Germano and others at the University of Virginia. This trend holds true especially for North America, where the vast majority of collection development has passively relied on the PL480’s successor program, the LC South Asian Cooperative Acquisitions Program (SACAP). The result for our field has been relatively uniform print collections at most schools and a dearth of Tibetan-literate professional librarians and catalogers. The advent of the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center (TBRC) Core Text Collections has rapidly expanded the availability (and searchability) of materials for scholars, and now from the comfort of home. Such projects, in their vitality and prominence, have also served to highlight the value and breadth of Tibetan textual traditions and a field of vibrant scholarship at academic institutions. At the same time, vast digitization efforts have prompted some libraries to wonder about the need to preserve their legacy collections. Drawing on data from academic research library databases and with reference to current trends in university library and information science, this paper aims to identify challenges in the current model and practice of Tibetan Studies librarianship at North American universities. Taking as a premise that it is the role of academic research libraries not just to collect, but also to organize, preserve, and make knowledge accessible, this paper then explores models for how academic research libraries can better leverage and parlay their institutional strengths in a new environment through partnerships with private initiatives, cooperative projects across academic institutions, and in more robust support of classroom instruction and research.Library science, Asian studieslh2112Starr East Asian Library, Libraries and Information ServicesPresentationsMakino Mamoru and Film Theory: The Case of Nakagawa Shigeakihttp://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:156167
Gerow, Aaronhttp://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:18927Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000Presentation: "Makino Mamoru and Film Theory: The Case of Nakagawa Shigeaki" by Aaron Gerow, Associate Professor, Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale University. Makino Collection Symposium Panel 2: "The Makino Collection and Early Japanese Cinema" Symposium: "The Makino Collection at Columbia: the Present and Future of an Archive." On November 11, 2011, Columbia University held its first daylong symposium to examine research in the field of Japanese film studies emerging from the rich holdings of the Makino Mamoru Collection on the History of East Asian Film (Makino Collection). The event was hosted by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture, and the School of the Arts -- Film Division.Asian studies, Film studiesStarr East Asian LibraryConferencesAspects of Small-Gauge Film Culture in Prewar Japanhttp://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:156146
Tomita, Mika http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:18918Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000Presentation: "Aspects of Small-Gauge Film Culture in Prewar Japan" by Professor Mika Tomita. Mika Tomita is Associate Professor, College of Image Arts and Sciences, Ritsumeikan University Makino Collection Symposium Panel 3: "The Makino Collection and Documentary Film" Symposium: "The Makino Collection at Columbia: the Present and Future of an Archive." On November 11, 2011, Columbia University held its first daylong symposium to examine research in the field of Japanese film studies emerging from the rich holdings of the Makino Mamoru Collection on the History of East Asian Film (Makino Collection). The event was hosted by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture, and the School of the Arts -- Film Division.Asian studies, Film studiesStarr East Asian LibraryConferencesArchive Phobia: Korean Cinema and its Colonial Pastshttp://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:156173
Hughes, Theodore Q.http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:18932Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000Theodore Hughes is The Korea Foundation Association Professor of Korean Studies in the Humanities, the Department of East Asian Languages and Culture, Columbia University Makino Collection Symposium Panel 1: "The Makino Collection, Film Archives, and East Asian Cinema" Symposium: "The Makino Collection at Columbia: the Present and Future of an Archive." On November 11, 2011, Columbia University held its first daylong symposium to examine research in the field of Japanese film studies emerging from the rich holdings of the Makino Mamoru Collection on the History of East Asian Film (Makino Collection). The event was hosted by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture, and the School of the Arts -- Film Division.Asian studies, Film studiesth2150Starr East Asian Library, East Asian Languages and CulturesConferencesJapanese Female Director Sakane Tazuko, the Manchurian Film Association, and Archival Materials for Japanese Colonial Filmshttp://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:156179
Ikegawa, Reiko http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:18931Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000Presentation: "Japanese Female Director Sakane Tazuko, the Manchurian Film Association, and Archival Materials for Japanese Colonial Films" by Adjunct Lecturer, Jissen Women’s University and Otsuma Women’s University. Makino Collection Symposium Panel 1: "The Makino Collection, Film Archives, and East Asian Cinema," Symposium: "The Makino Collection at Columbia: the Present and Future of an Archive." On November 11, 2011, Columbia University held its first daylong symposium to examine research in the field of Japanese film studies emerging from the rich holdings of the Makino Mamoru Collection on the History of East Asian Film (Makino Collection). The event was hosted by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture, and the School of the Arts -- Film Division.Asian studies, Film studiesStarr East Asian LibraryConferencesPaul Rotha/Pōru Rūta and the Politics of Translationhttp://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:156158
Nornes , Abé Mark http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:18916Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000Presentation: "Paul Rotha/Pōru Rūta and the Politics of Translation" by Professor Abé Mark Nornes. Abé Mark Nornes is Chair of the Department of Screen Arts and Culture and Professor in Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan Makino Collection Symposium Panel 3: "The Makino Collection and Documentary Film" Symposium: "The Makino Collection at Columbia: the Present and Future of an Archive." On November 11, 2011, Columbia University held its first daylong symposium to examine research in the field of Japanese film studies emerging from the rich holdings of the Makino Mamoru Collection on the History of East Asian Film (Makino Collection). The event was hosted by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture, and the School of the Arts -- Film Division.Asian studies, Film studiesStarr East Asian LibraryConferencesDestination Japan: The Personal Collection as Alternative Archivehttp://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:156170
Bernardi, Joanne http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:18930Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000Presentation: "Destination Japan: The Personal Collection as Alternative Archive" by Joanne Bernardi, Associate Professor, Modern Languages and Cultures Department, University of Rochester. Makino Collection Symposium Panel 2: "The Makino Collection and Early Japanese Cinema," Symposium: "The Makino Collection at Columbia: the Present and Future of an Archive." On November 11, 2011, Columbia University held its first daylong symposium to examine research in the field of Japanese film studies emerging from the rich holdings of the Makino Mamoru Collection on the History of East Asian Film (Makino Collection). The event was hosted by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture, and the School of the Arts -- Film Division.Asian studies, Film studiesStarr East Asian LibraryConferencesOnoe Matsunosuke and Materials Related to the Film, Chushingura (The Royal Forty-seven Ronin) in the Makino Mamoru Collectionhttp://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:156164
Oya, Atsuko http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:18925Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000"Onoe Matsunosuke and Materials Related to the Film, Chūshingura (The Royal Forty-seven Ronin) in the Makino Mamoru Collection" by Dr. Atsuko Oya.Asian studies, Film studiesStarr East Asian LibraryConferencesThe Development of China’s Scholarly Publications in Library and Information Science, 1979-2009: An Analysis of ISI Literaturehttp://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:153706
Wang, Chengzhihttp://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:15043Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000Purpose – No scholarly publications have systematically studied the evolution and growth of China's scientific papers of library and information science published in the English language and covered by ISI during the reform era starting in 1979. It is intended that this paper should fill this gap. Design/methodology/approach – This study surveys ISI library and information science papers authored by researchers of China during 1979-2009 and quantitatively presents the development of scholarly publications authored by researchers from China. A total of 30 years of data of ISI literature are collected and analyzed, and the paper conducts an international comparison of research productivity among leading Asian countries. Findings – The paper establishes the patterns and trends of papers authored by Chinese authors, particularly the top subject areas and top journals in which Chinese papers are highly represented. Besides, the paper makes an international comparison between China and other major Asian countries such as India, Japan, and Korea in terms of library and information science research outputs represented in ISI literature. China has become the leader in terms of research productivity of library and information science. Research limitations/implications – This study focuses on English-language journal articles only. Only journals meeting ISI inclusion criteria are reviewed and analyzed. The possible accidentally inaccurate entries in the original ISI data have not been checked for accuracy and consistency for each journal article record. Originality/value – The paper provided an example of using the powerful ISI databases of citation indexes, particularly ISI SCCI, in a cautious and critical way. It empirically presents the overall upward development of China's scholarship of library and information science. Either the Greater China area as a whole or Mainland China alone has become the leader in the scholarly publications in library and information ahead of India, Korea and Japan.Library sciencecw2165Starr East Asian Library, Libraries and Information ServicesArticlesA Treasure for Historical Studies: Research Materials of Chinese Oral History at Columbia Universityhttp://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:152026
Wang, Chengzhihttp://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:14522Tue, 28 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000The rich Chinese oral history collections at Columbia University mainly consist of the Chinese Oral History Project collection, the China Missionaries Project collection, the Academia Sinica Institute of Modern History Oral History collection, and the Zhang Xueliang (Chang Hsuehliang, or Peter H. L. Chang) Oral History collection. This article intends to provide essential information on what is available, how to navigate through the multitudes of the collections, and how to communicate requests for access to Columbia libraries. It offers as an updated, comprehensive, consistent overview of Chinese oral history collections at Columbia for better access by users and librarians alike, particularly for Chinese-language users in Taiwan and China.Library sciencecw2165Starr East Asian Library, Libraries and Information ServicesArticlesProject Hope and the Hope School System in China: A Re-evaluationhttp://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:152017
Wang, Chengzhihttp://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:14519Tue, 28 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000I investigate the creation, development, contributions and limits of Project Hope, a huge government-endorsed education project seeking non-governmental contributions to overcome educational inadequacy in poverty-stricken rural communities in transitional China. By reexamining the composition of sponsored students, the locations of Hope Primary Schools and non-educational orientations for building and expanding schools, I argue that Project Hope and its Hope School system have not contributed to educational access, equality, equity, efficiency and quality as it should have. Poverty-reduction-oriented curriculum requirements in Hope Primary Schools are theoretically misleading and realistically problematic.Elementary educationcw2165Starr East Asian Library, Libraries and Information ServicesArticlesChinese Oral History Collections at Columbia: Toward Better Accesshttp://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:152023
Wang, Chengzhihttp://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:14521Tue, 28 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000Source materials keep their scholarly value unabated with the passage of time. This is true of the Chinese Oral History collections at Columbia. Most of the collections were created, acquired in association with the Chinese Oral History Project undertaken about three decades ago, but they are still frequently inquired about and consulted by students and scholars researching modern China. All the original Chinese oral history collections are kept at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RBML) at Columbia. Some difficulties in accessing the collections from afar and at Columbia have been reported by new users. Among other problems, new users assume that records for these Chinese-language oral histories have been completely entered into CLIO (Columbia Libraries Information Online), Columbia’s online catalog, and converted to LC pinyin system, and so are searchable in CLIO, but in fact this is not true. Many authors and titles of the oral histories, if known, are not directly searchable. Some general titles of oral history projects are searchable, and the search results offer substantial useful information in great detail. Yet, few users would search CLIO using the correct general titles, and some specific personal papers and archives cannot be located this way. Moreover, it seems the Journal of East Asian Libraries and other library professional periodicals have not carried any articles focusing on this important oral history collection. The Chinese Oral History project at Columbia officially started in 1958 and ended in 1980. Prof. C. Martin Wilbur, the project co-director, prepared an updated, but unfinished inventory for RBML in 1984. A number of other Chinese-related oral history projects of significant importance were conducted at or collected by Columbia. The available guides, printed in 1972, 1979, and 1984, were collected by some institutions, but they have been found not to be perfect in meeting the research needs of the new generation of users who are used to renewed, updated search tools. The general guide at RBML, which has been very useful, seems to be the aggregate of documents such as guides, inventories, and relevant journal articles from various sources at different time. Many of the documents in the guide are informal documents, with undated handwritten notes and corrections. It is necessary to offer an updated, comprehensive, consistent overview of Chinese oral history collections at Columbia for better access by users and librarians alike. Chinese oral history collections at Columbia mainly consist of the Chinese Oral History Project collection, the China Missionaries Project collection, the Academica Sinica Institute of Modern History oral history collection, and the Zhang Xueliang oral history collection. It is impossible for me to cover all the collections in detail in this article. This article intends to provide essential information on what is available, how to navigate through the multitudes of the collections, and how to communicate requests for access to RBML staff. In particular, it includes the lists of person names in LC pinyin, Chinese and original Romanization, and record titles of the transcribed memoirs, personal papers, and archives that users and librarians may find immediately useful.Information sciencecw2165Starr East Asian Library, Libraries and Information ServicesArticlesChinese Local Gazetteers: Evolution, Institutionalization and Digitizationhttp://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:152020
Wang, Chengzhihttp://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:14520Tue, 28 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000The past three decades have witnessed great changes and developments in the publishing industry in China. One important change is that more and more new local gazetteers (or local histories) and yearbooks are compiled and published in book format. Local gazetteers and yearbooks are also increasingly available in electronic format through commercial databases or as is less known, in public domain. The purpose of this article is to address the following questions: What are new local gazetteers and yearbooks? Why so many titles are published now? Are there any free online full texts available? What are the free online full texts? In addition, I will briefly examine the institutionalization of compiling and publishing local gazetteers and yearbooks in China. Furthermore, I present the result of a survey on freely available online full texts of such materials that I conducted from 2007 through 2008. Given that commercial full-text databases of local gazetteers are unaffordable for most libraries in North America, it is hoped that students, researchers and librarians of Chinese studies shall find the free online full-text materials useful.Information sciencecw2165Starr East Asian Library, Libraries and Information ServicesArticlesEvaluating Demographic Websites: Toward Webometric Criteriahttp://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:152029
Wang, Chengzhihttp://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:14523Tue, 28 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000The conventional criteria of website evaluation are widely applied in evaluating online information, which is an important component of information literacy instruction in academic institutions. However, mainly from the users' angle and inherently bibliographic, these criteria tend to be general in nature and fail to differentiate the qualities of websites at similar quality levels. Thus, evaluation criteria from webometric perspectives that utilize measurable data and tangible information are needed for more informed assessment. The purpose of this article is to introduce and apply essential webometric criteria to supplement the conventional criteria to improve information literacy instruction. The article first synthesizes the widely used conventional criteria into Six C's for the sake of simplicity and applicability. Then, important webometric criteria of popularity, profundity, luminosity, and error-checking are introduced. Next, the webometric data collected from leading demography research institutions' websites in the U. S. are analyzed. The article concludes that while conventional criteria continue to be convenient and useful, particularly for novel web users, a basic set of webometric criteria can serve as a supplementary tool to provide additional insights into evaluating online resources.Library science, Web studiescw2165Starr East Asian Library, Libraries and Information ServicesArticlesFrom Manpower Supply to Economic Revival: Governance and Financing of Chinese Higher Educationhttp://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:151412
Wang, Chengzhihttp://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:14336Thu, 09 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000With an introduction to the overall underdevelopment of higher education in China compared with the American counterpart, this article briefly examines the main trends of over two decades of development of the governance and financing systems of China's higher education sector. This article analyzes the resource allocation from governments and revenue generation in institutions under the reform policies of administrative decentralization and financing diversification. The new "Great Leap Forward" in higher education in 1999 and beyond, i.e., the radical and, to a certain extent, desperate mass higher education policy and practice of expanding enrollments in order to spur domestic consumption, is critically analyzed. By examining the ongoing institutional merging and "co-building" and the most recent enrollment expansion, the writer points out the economic significance for higher education of overcoming diseconomies of scale and inefficiencies. However, the long-range outcomes of the seemingly exciting investment in and consumption of mass higher education are difficult to predict.Higher education, Education policycw2165Starr East Asian Library, Libraries and Information ServicesArticlesWho Has Published What in East Asian Studies? An Analysis of Publishers and Publishing Trendshttp://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:151404
Chen, Su; Wang, Chengzhihttp://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:14334Thu, 09 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000This study examines Western-language, particularly English-language, monographs on East Asian studies published in the United States, Canada, England, Australia, and other countries from 2000 through 2005. The study provides a landscape view of the scope and trends of publications for both scholars and librarians in East Asian studies. The data for this study were collected from the YBP’s GOBI (Global Online Bibliographic Information) database, covering publications profiled by YBP from January 1, 2000, through December 31, 2005. The results of data analysis shed light on scholarly currents and publishing trends in East Asian studies over that six-year period.Asian studies, Library sciencecw2165Starr East Asian Library, Libraries and Information ServicesArticlesBasic Education Reform in China: Untangling the Story of Successhttp://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:151407
Wang, Chengzhi; Zhou, Quanhuahttp://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:14335Thu, 09 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000China's recent basic education reform followed and, in a certain way, imitated its economic reform. The economic reform merged the experimental dual (planned and market) price systems into a free market economy and yielded phenomenal success. Basic education reform, however, has not succeeded in transforming the introductory dual-track (key school and regular school) systems into a universal one. This article briefly examines the general process and outcomes of basic education reform. It discusses the following questions: Is basic education reform also a story of success? What significant lessons can the Chinese reform experience offer to other comparable developing countries?Education policycw2165Starr East Asian Library, Libraries and Information ServicesArticlesA Socio-Historical Study of the Kingdom of Sde-dge (Derge, Kham) in the Late Nineteenth Century: Ris-med Views of Alliance and Authorityhttp://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:145316
Hartley, Lauran R.http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:12800Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000This thesis seeks to broaden our understanding of religio-political alliances in Tibet beyond the more sectarian view that arises by generalizing from historical developments in Central Tibet. Specifically, I discuss the sociopolitical situation in during the 19th century in the eastern Tibetan kingdom of Sde-dge (Derge, Kham). This case study provides an example of religio-political alliance at the local level which cannot be grasped by a model that highlights a single sectarian affiliation. On the contrary, one strategy for securing rule in Sde-dge was precisely for the king NOT to maintain an exclusive relationship with one tradition, but to form close ties with monasteries of different traditions. The thesis also examines the Rgyal po'i lugs kyi bstan bcos [Treatise on how a king should rule], written by 'Ju Mi pham rgya mtsho (Mipham) for the king of Sde-dge in 1895.Asian historylh2112Starr East Asian Library, Libraries and Information ServicesMaster's theses嬗变中的当代中国独立电影及其海外收藏http://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:145097
Cheng, Jimhttp://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:12729Mon, 05 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000本文阐述了当代中国独立电影的定义，时代背景，发展状况，及其表现的题材内容轮廓，同时介绍了海外大学图书馆对中国独立电影的收藏概况，尤其是对加州大学圣地亚哥分校图书馆的中国独立电影收藏的范围，原则，内容，格式，使用作了详细的叙述。Asian studies, Film studies, Library sciencejc3685Starr East Asian Library, Libraries and Information ServicesArticlesFinal Performance Report: Preserving and Making Accessible the Barbara C. Adachi Collection of Bunraku, Japanese Puppet Theaterhttp://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:125343
Heinrich, Amy Vladeckhttp://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:8582Fri, 02 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000Library scienceavh1Starr East Asian Library, Libraries and Information ServicesReports